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On Local Business, Titus Andronicus shifts their focus from the ghosts of our nation’s historical scars as they did on 2010’s The Monitor, to the wounds of today’s modern society. Growing up in an area so rife with oblivious consumerism as Glen Rock, N.J., frontman Patrick Stickles is keenly aware of the soul rot eating away the fabric of the middle class. And the channeling of
these frustrations is clearly conveyed across the group’s trademark Crass- Meet-The-Mats-on-E-Street style with songs like “Still Life with Hot Deuce on Silver Platter” and the 8-minute “My Eating Disorder.” “It isn’t that I do not love you,” Stickles slurs out on the raggedly lovely closing number “Tried to Quit Smoking.” “It’s just that I hate everyone.” Spoken like a true son of anarchy.